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    Summary of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know
    Summary of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know
    Summary of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know
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    Summary of Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know

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    Book Preview: #1 I borrowed a VCR and struggled with the puzzle of plugs and cords. I pushed one tape in, and it started with Christmas in 1984. I saw a four-year-old girl in a velvet dress, her little neck swallowed by an enormous white lace collar. She had thick, straight-across bangs and braided pigtails.

    #2 My father was a brilliant man who had spent his life immersed in tropical heat. He had spent his life dreaming of going to American colleges, but when he wrote to American colleges asking about scholarship options, they told him not to waste his time. Then he got a perfect 1600 on the SATs, and was able to escape poverty and go to college in America.

    #3 My parents took me to The Tech Museum of Innovation or the Children’s Discovery Museum on Saturdays, and we had fun. On Sundays, we went to church and sang Shout to the Lord with our all-white congregation.

    #4 I had to go through and edit all of my notes, and my mother did the same. She marked my work with red X’s, circles, and strikethroughs. Each pen mark was a punch to the chest.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMar 8, 2022
    ISBN9781669357285
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      #1

      I borrowed a VCR and struggled with the puzzle of plugs and cords. I pushed one tape in, and it started with Christmas in 1984. I saw a four-year-old girl in a velvet dress, her little neck swallowed by an enormous white lace collar. She had thick, straight-across bangs and braided pigtails.

      #2

      My father was a brilliant man who had spent his life immersed in tropical heat. He had spent his life dreaming of going to American colleges, but when he wrote to American colleges asking about scholarship options, they told him not to waste his time. Then he got a perfect 1600 on the SATs, and was able to escape poverty and go to college in America.

      #3

      My parents took me to The Tech Museum of Innovation or the Children’s Discovery Museum on Saturdays, and we had fun. On Sundays, we went to church and sang Shout to the Lord with our all-white congregation.

      #4

      I had to go through and edit all of my notes, and my mother did the same. She marked my work with red X’s, circles, and strikethroughs. Each pen mark was a punch to the chest.

      #5

      The purpose of the journal was to improve my writing skills, but it was also to preserve my childhood memories. But as I read through it now, I realized that my mother’s mission had failed. I had no recollection of the Santa Cruz trip or the lion dance.

      #6

      The author’s mother was extremely critical of her daughter’s developing body, and she did not tell her about her period. Instead, she bound her chest and wore baggy T-shirts to hide her developing breasts.

      #7

      I had the wrong idea about my mother and her trip. I thought things would be okay after that weekend, but instead, my mother was humiliated by me. I was always making my mother look bad.

      #8

      I remember being so afraid of my mother’s beatings that I would cry bitterly after every one of them. But I also loved her, and so I must have felt guilty and frightened.

      #9

      I knew I couldn’t control my mother’s feelings, but I could control how I reacted to them. I knew

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